Shia Marja: Those Who Vote Is Out Of Islam

"Sayed Isfahani, Sheikh AlKhalisy and Sheikh AlNa'ieeni had issued fatwas forbidding the participation in elections. And the fatwa of Sayed Al-Isfahani was the following:

(To our Muslim brothers: These elections will destroy the Islamic nation, so whoever votes after knowing that the elections are forbidden, his wife will become forbidden unto him and also his Zyara(religous visitation of an Imam's grave at the shrines), and its forbidden to say Salam back to him, and he is not allowed to enter the bathroom of the Muslims"(1)

Additionally speaking, scholars of Najaf and Karbala issued fatwas similar to the above one on boycotting elections and considering whoever participates in it to be out of Islam; and this has been spread all throughout Iraq in various counties.(2)